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Faith, hope and...The Doctor!,
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This review is from: Faith Stealer (Doctor Who) (Audio CD)
From 'The Sunmakers' to 'The Long Game', satire has long been at the core of some of Doctor Who's most memorable stories and Faith Stealer is a pleasing addition to this canon.This time, as the title suggests, the satire is religious; the time-travellers continue to be trapped in The Kro'ka's universe and arrive in 'Multihaven', nicely descibed by Charley as 'some kind of spiritual stock-exchange!'. C'rizz is suffering from mental strain, hounded by flashbacks of him murdering his lover and Charley is bemused and disturbed by the variety of 'Gods' for sale. Apart from a somewhat uncertain tone - slapstick comedy rubs shoulders with attempts at pathos - this is the best in the Eighth Doctor 'story arc', Paul McGann is at his insouciant, unruffled and meandering best and Charley and C'rizz's strained relationship is further battered. Who or what is 'Miraculite'? Why is it trapping priests and what is its ultimate purpose? In parts reminiscent of a Terry Pratchett novel with its ludicrous religions and feeble failures, the story immediately grips and makes us care about The Eighth Doctor and his crew in a way that has rarely been achieved before now.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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An improvement,
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This review is from: Faith Stealer (Doctor Who) (Audio CD)
The eighth doctor seemed to have lost his way in the last season of audios from Big Finish. The stories on the whole were sloppy and failed to engage the listener. The overall feeling ever since 'Zagreus' has been that the authors have become too clever for their own good, this is Doctor Who not George Orwell... Faith Stealer feels more traditional, and this is a good step. The story is solid as conatins some interesting concepts taking place as it does in a settlement in which hundreds of religion compete for converts. Aside from a few poorly written attempts at humour (the cult who consider accidents to be lucky...) this is a good solid story. If you were put off by the last season give this a shot. Or if you're new to Big Finish get a copy of Storm Warning and start from the beginning of the Paul McGann seasons...
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"So much Lucidity!",
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This review is from: Faith Stealer (Doctor Who) (Audio CD)
"When the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz find their journey through the Interzone interrupted by a nightmarish vision, they are surprised to find the Kro'ka offering the perfect solution..."The Multihaven - a vast array of religions and faiths housed in one harmonious community - appears to offer the perfect sanctuary in which to convalesce. But under the guidance of the charismatic Laan Carder, one religion seems to be gathering disciples at an alarming rate... "With the Doctor and Charley catching glimpses of an old friend and C'rizz on the receiving end of some unorthodox religious practices, their belief, hope and faith are about to be tested to the limit." "Faith Stealer", by Graham Duff, gets Big Finish Production's second, more successful Divergent Universe season off to an enjoyable start with a mildly satirical take on religion and the dangers of cultism. "Faith Stealer" is not anti-religion: in a way, it pays homage to multiculturalism and the diversity of faith. It is only the fast-growing cult, the Church of Lucidity, with its quest for the total conversion of every inhabitant of the Multihaven and a sinister force at its helm that is preying on the faith of its disciples, that threatens the unique character of the Multihaven and eventually destroys it, along with several of its citizens. The religions portrayed in Faith Stealer are imaginative, including the religion of the Bakoans, who worship a never-ending hymn, and the Church of Serendipity, who worship accidents (introducing welcome moments of comedy into the story). The cult, meanwhile, is well-portrayed, with its dangerously sincere leader Laan Carder (Christian Rodska) and his faithful initiate Jebdal (Helen Kirkpatrick) leading the fold with cries of "So Much Lucidity"! Duff also takes a poke at ineffectual leadership with the character of the Bordinan (Tessa Shaw), a likeable but weak adjudicator who dithers until the last and therefore fails to act to save her unique domain of the Multihaven until it is too late. Regulars Paul McGann, India Fisher and Conrad Westmaas do a decent job with the material, with Westmaas' character C'rizz finally getting something interesting to do after a predictable first outing two subsequent cases of under-exposure. The ending, which I shan't reveal here, is a bit of a cop-out, but along the way "Faith Stealer" does a decent job of mixing satire with drama and incident, and deserves considerable recognition for its imaginative premise.
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